Using a password-protected mirror

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 11, 2009, at 02:28, Joshua Root wrote:

>> See, it cut the URL at the colon after the username, and seems to  
>> have
>> inserted the port name instead.
>
> Colon is used as a marker to separate the URL from the tags. I think
> this is what fetch.user and fetch.password are for. But of course they
> can't be set globally.

I doubt we'll have any official mirrors that need passwords, so I'll  
reconfigure my private web servers to password-protect everything  
except for the distfiles URL.